This module allows you to analyze existing cross correlation between Citigroup Inc and The Home Depot Inc. You can compare the effects of market volatilities on Citigroup and Home Depot and check how they will diversify away market risk if combined in the same portfolio for a given time horizon. You can also utilize pair trading strategies of matching a long position in Citigroup with a short position of Home Depot. See also your portfolio center. Please also check ongoing floating volatility patterns of Citigroup and Home Depot.

Pair Volatility

Taking into account the 30 trading days horizon, Citigroup Inc is expected to generate 0.88 times more return on investment than Home Depot. However, Citigroup Inc is 1.14 times less risky than Home Depot. It trades about -0.04 of its potential returns per unit of risk. The Home Depot Inc is currently generating about -0.24 per unit of risk. If you would invest 7,855 in Citigroup Inc on January 23, 2018 and sell it today you would lose (155.00) from holding Citigroup Inc or give up 1.97% of portfolio value over 30 days.

Correlation Coefficient

Pair Corralation between Citigroup and Home Depot

0.85

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Diversification

Very poor diversification

Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Citigroup Inc and The Home Depot Inc in the same portfolio assuming nothing else is changed. The correlation between historical prices or returns on The Home Depot and Citigroup is a relative statistical measure of the degree to which these equity instruments tend to move together. The correlation coefficient measures the extent to which returns on Citigroup Inc are associated (or correlated) with Home Depot. Values of the correlation coefficient range from -1 to +1, where. The correlation of zero (0) is possible when the price movement of The Home Depot has no effect on the direction of Citigroup i.e. Citigroup and Home Depot go up and down completely randomly.